​A statue that depicts Spider-Man in a particularly excited state has been removed from Lotte Shopping Center in Busan, Korea after public complaints.

It's been up since last year, but we guess Spider-Man and his appendage are just getting attention from the public now.

​ ​Artist Eunsuk Yoo explained the decision to remove the statue on Facebook:

I am the artist who made this piece. My reason for it was that I wanted apply the natural physical phenomenon to a superhero depict what’s natural in the morning without lies and superficial-ness in a comical way.

There have been some comments on various community sites and Facebook pages that this is lewd and a disgrace to the source material. Lotte Shopping Center has received many complaint calls this morning from a certain organization, and after their meeting, it was decided that I have to either modify or take the statue down. Instead of modifying my work, I’ve decided to take it down.

It was ok for about a year and now it has to be taken down due a sudden interest in the piece, which is sad. But I understand that a piece that could be potentially interpreted as lewd can be offensive at a place like shopping mall. It’s disappointing, but I’ll reach out to the public with a better work next time.

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And if it was a female Spidey- women? And bare breast, fewer people would care, be bothered about it or noticed. We tolerate or permit objectification of a female's body but put objectify a man and it is dirty, rude and lewd. I guess our kids must think making babies is a disgusting act rather than a beautiful moment of creation, or perhaps I have been doing it wrong.

ok korea has a penis park and pennis festival i think this is so fitting and i would love to have this on my house bad ass peice and anny man who dosnt wake up with a bonner is more than likely mot a man but a woman i agree with the artist its fun

I like the look of that piece. If we have to destroy anything nude or sexually suggestive, many of the classic art works that have stood for centuries in museums must be destroyed. We'll become like the sancimonious bigots who painted scraps of cloth over every nude in the Sistine Chapel.

While I admit that nudity for the sake of making a statement is not necessarily art, by the same token art with nudity is not necessarily pornographic or inappropriate.

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What ever happened to 'Art For Art's Sake'. Back in ancient times artists used to make statues depicting men with no clothes on, and have those statues displayed right in the town square and nobody criticized them. What has become of this world. I think people worry too much about insignificant things that used to be trivial, now they make major issues out of.

What was the purpose of the boner anyway? Just being vulgar? Was there some kind of statement being made, other than the sticky-fingered hero is also human with sexual urges? Come on, it's not really necessary in public is it?

I agree. I am not offended at this at all. But there are places for this, and this was not the place. When we have a boner we do our best to hide it if we are in public. That is a private thing for you and your partner.

Very cool statue, but put it on a night club or art house. Not a shopping center.

Hahaha okay blame other people for some psychopaths actions. I would say it's a lot more likely they're acting out because they're mentally unstable, not because a statue of Spiderman with an erection is being taken down. Don't blame 'prudes' for other people's actions to harm others. If you need to blame someone besides the agressor, blame the people that don't make sure these people are getting psychiatric help.